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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2013 Mar 16;133(6):1441–1446. doi: 10.1002/ijc.28131

TABLE 3.

Agreement in detection of individual human papillomavirus (HPV) types between cervical exfoliated cells and biopsiesa, by cervical status. Kenya 2009

Cervical status N HPV, individual types
Cyto Histo Complete agreement

N (%)
Partial agreement (extra types in cells)
N (%)
Partial agreement (extra types in biopsy)
N (%)
Partial agreement (extra types in both)
N (%)
All discordant

N (%)
Norm Norm 14 4 (28.6) 6 (42.9) 1 (7.1) 0 (0.0) 3 (21.4)
Any ≤CIN1b 67 21 (31.3) 31 (46.3) 2 (3.0) 7 (10.4) 6 (9.0)
<HSIL CIN2/3 30 11 (36.7) 13 (43.3) 1 (3.3) 2 (6.7) 3 (10.0)
HSIL CIN2/3 50 19 (38.0) 25 (50.0) 2 (4.0) 2 (4.0) 2 (4.0)
Overall 161c 55 (34.2) 75 (46.6) 6 (3.7) 11 (6.8) 14 (8.7)
a

Only pairs in which both cells and biopsy were HPV-positive.

b

Including normal biopsies only in combination with any cytological abnormality.

c

6 women with uncharacterized HPV types are not included.

CIN: cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; HSIL: high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion.